Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2024

The product management world sometimes uses the terms product design/development interchangeably. This ultimate guide will walk you through the key differences between product design and product development. What is product development? Spotify’s user interface.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. As its name suggests, the grid analyses the stakeholders by taking into account their power and interest; it assumes that people take a low or high interest in your product and have low or high power.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. This will allow them to take full ownership of and responsibility for their products, and it will increase their motivation, productivity, and job satisfaction.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Ensuring everyone aligns with the values and what they mean is integral because our organization's core values are the connective tissue that brings everyone together; they are the foundation for the concerted love of our products, solutions, and services. What has always worked for me is collaboration and storytelling.

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Ronke PM

MAY 8, 2024

Product management revolves around human needs, wants, and desires, making it a humbling responsibility. Influential product leaders manage their teams with well-being in mind, necessitating culture-driven leadership. Culture-driven product leaders mold and develop a culture where if one person fails, we all fail.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. It takes time to prioritize something in the roadmap, and it takes time to build products. Building a great product takes time.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Unlike a line manager, you usually don’t manage the development team and stakeholders as the person in charge of the product, and the individuals don’t report to you. In order to overcome this challenge, build trust with the stakeholders and development team members. No Transactional Power.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical PM Skills A big part of the role of a startup product manager is working with engineers to define and build the product. While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The audience for the Developer Portal and API seems somewhat clear. It’s probably the same as building for others, but there is a market of people that will want to make their own apps/integrations (maybe Xero feels this is captured in that they see that most people engage a developer to build their integration for them).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Side Note: Asking why and how a roadmap was constructed in a certain way also makes a great product manager interview question. When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for. Strategy —  Is there a clear strategy behind the product and the roadmap?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Hypercroissance Quebec - an initiative of Startup Montreal developed in collaboration with Apexe Global with the support of the Quebec government, Desjardins Entreprises and BDC - is the first program to focus entirely on Quebec's high-growth companies (also known as scaleups).

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. This allows you to get better at offering constructive feedback in the future.

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

.’ This is the reason the problem statement template distinctly calls out “Affects…” as a field, versus relying on product people to mention who is affected when describing the problem itself. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. We shifted from functional and feature budgeting to portfolio and product budgeting. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Looking for the top product lead skills you must master to succeed as a product leader? Product leads are responsible for the creation and development of new products. They manage and track the entire product lifecycle strategy from design to completion. Soft skills apply to all professions.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Returning with us is Greg Geracie the CEO of Actuation Consulting, a global provider of product management training, consulting, and advisory services to some of the world’s most well-known organizations. I’ve known Greg for several years, as we both volunteer with PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore Mary’s journey, the strategies she used to reframe her experience, and the valuable lessons she learned along the way. This diverse experience, she found, was not unlike working in a product environment.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

This playbook focuses on the essential elements for running a Product Discovery, including the key concepts, inputs, activities, and outputs. It has been constructed and back tested against the many discoveries we’ve run at Terem. Why do a Product Discovery? Business development risk?—?does Technical risk?—?will

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

Let’s go over some strategies to improve your customer sentiment score: Improve customer experience based on feedback insights, prioritizing areas of dissatisfaction to enhance customer satisfaction. Track customer sentiment score to measure the effectiveness of product strategies and identify areas for improvement.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you thought there were a million ways to define product management, product strategy might have it beat by a longshot. Just think about how many ways product strategy is defined within your own organization. It’s the number one thing that makes product strategy both challenging and frustrating at the same time.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. A well constructed feature describes our approach to creating or improving a capability which we believe is necessary to realize the intended outcomes of an epic. Any given epic will be achieved through the development of multiple features. The Job of An Epic.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2021

This article investigates the challenges larger organisations face when implementing product analytics, how to overcome them, and how to successfully develop a data-driven product development culture that focuses on providing excellent customer experiences. Why product analytics is hard in enterprise organisations.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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Userpilot

MARCH 10, 2024

Create data-driven product strategies – Usage pattern data helps understand how people navigate your product so product teams can design features and user experiences accordingly. Reduce customer churn – When you eliminate friction and adapt your product to changing user needs, they’re less likely to churn.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Since my college days, I was always passionate about being an entrepreneur and my college experience led me to participate in what is called the Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC). As product creators and business developers we have to keep evolving our understanding of consumers and markets to ensure that we create value.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”. Let’s tackle this, because it’s not the first time I’ve heard that product outcome roadmaps are “useless.”. Measurable outcomes in product roadmaps help you understand progress and continuously learn.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Guest Post by: Lee Atkins (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. One method that Product Managers are turning too is the Customer Advisory Board. You’ll learn tons.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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